Celtic Fairy Tales, Andrew Coffey, sentence 45
Under the tree they came, set the box down, opened it, and who should they bring out but--Patrick Rooney.
Who acts: heavens · What happens: come, set down, open, bring out · To what, where: tree, box
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Andrew Coffey. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heavens), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Under | under | ADP | _ | 3 tree | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 tree | det |
| 3 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 set | punct |
| 7 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 came | xcomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 box | det |
| 9 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 set | obj |
| 10 | down | down | ADP | _ | 7 set | compound:prt |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 opened | punct |
| 12 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 opened | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 bring | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 bring | cc |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 bring | nsubj |
| 17 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 bring | aux |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 bring | nsubj |
| 19 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 came | conj |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 bring | compound:prt |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 Rooney | cc |
| 22 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 21 but | punct |
| 23 | Patrick | Patrick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Rooney | compound |
| 24 | Rooney | Rooney | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 bring | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | heavens = heaven | the tree | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | set down | infinitive | heavens = heaven not said here | the box | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient box=Result | ||||
| 3 | open | past | heavens = heaven not said here | box | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | bring out | should | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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